GIS Dictionary
Definitions for GIS terms related to operations such as analysis, GIS modeling and web-based GIS, cartography, and Esri software.
Now available for purchase: A to Z GIS: An illustrated dictionary of geographic information systems.
Search the GIS Dictionary:
GIS Bibliography
Researching GIS?
Search the GIS Bibliography for a vast index of books, journals, conference proceedings and reports.
E
- early binding
- easting
- eccentricity
- ecliptic
- ecological fallacy
- economic geography
- edge
- edge connectivity policy
- edge detection
- edge enhancement
- edge-edge rule
- edge-junction cardinality
- edge-junction rule
- edgematching
- Edit Annotation tool
- edit mask
- edit session
- edit sketch
- edit task
- Editor toolbar
- EDMS
- EDN
- electromagnetic radiation
- electromagnetic spectrum
- electronic atlas
- element
- elevation
- elevation guide
- elevation layer
- elevation tints
- ellipse
- ellipsoid
- embedded feature class
- EMF
- empirical
- enabled feature
- ENC
- enclosure
- encoding
- end hatch definition
- end offset
- endpoint connectivity
- enhancement
- enterprise GIS
- Enterprise JavaBeans
- envelope
- environment settings
- environment variable
- environmental model
- EOBrowser
- ephemeris
- EPSG ID
- equal competition area
- equal-area classification
- equal-area projection
- equal-interval classification
- equator
- equatorial aspect
- equidistant projection
- erase
- error
- error propagation
- error table
- ESRI Grid
- ESRI Maplex Label Engine
- ESRI Standard Label Engine
- EsriMapCatalog.ser
- EsriMapCookies.ser
- estimation
- Euclidean distance
- Euclidean distance analysis
- evaluator
- event
- event handling
- event layer
- event overlay
- event table
- event theme
- exception
- executable file
- exit state
- explode
- exponent
- export
- exposure station
- expression
- Extended Entity Data
- extension
- extent
- extent rectangle
- extract server
- Extract wizard
- extraction guide
- extrapolation
- extrusion
